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How To Respond To A Family Member Steeped In Addiction

A personal tale of two choices, and when the hardest decision is the honorable one.

ENVIRON

Contact Lenses and Cancer: Is There a Connection?

MANY SOFT CONTACT LENSES CONTAIN COMPOUNDS associated with health problems, including autoimmune disorders, fertility problems, cancer, liver problems, and kidney disease. This article explores whether there is a connection between contact lenses and cancer.

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UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Midurethral Sling

A mid-urethral sling is the most common type of surgery used to correct stress urinary incontinence or a leaky bladder. A small, supportive material of synthetic mesh is placed under the urethra to give support.

DISEASES

How Genetic Testing Helps to Streamline Weight Loss

If you’re responsible for a corporate health program, you’re no doubt looking for every opportunity to reduce the huge cost burden — both economic...

Young-Onset Colon Cancer

YOUNGER INDIVIDUALS WHO DEVELOP COLORECTAL CANCER appear more likely to present with late-stage disease in recent years. That is the conclusion of researchers who looked...

Vaping Kills Brain Cells? Do We Demand Action?

College student vaping is more dangerous than anyone admitted until research evidence showed it does severe damage.

Why Exercise Doesn’t Control Weight

Physical activity alone may not be sufficient for weight control. Weight gain or loss is primarily determined by the balance between the number of calories consumed and burned.

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SAFETY

What are Vitamins and What Role do They Play in Your Health?

Learn about vitamins, what they help for, how they work and what they can and cannot do. Find out which pills are a waste of money and why.

CARDIO

This 5-Minute Habit Could Help Prevent a Dangerous Heart Condition.

At 7:28 a.m., the sidewalk was still damp from last night’s Seattle area rain. I stepped outside, tea still warming my throat, and began walking...

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QUACK ALERTS

Nobel-Winning Virologist David Baltimore Eats Wuhan Crow

Nicholas Wade suggested the Wuhan laboratory was a possible source for the coronavirus. He used David Baltimore smoking gun comment to validate his theory.